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  How and Why the ARC into Child Sexual Abuse In Institutions Came About.

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. child-abuse

  a program is to be aired on abc tv tonight called : "undeniable :the advocates and agitators who fought for justice" to be shown at 9:30 pm aust.eastern daylight saving time in victoria.. while it doesn`t show anything from what i can gather, about jw`s ,it mainly concentrates on the catholic and anglican churches and if you want to make a comparison the abuse in the jw`s pales by comparison as an institution .. having said that their were some/one champions of jw child sex abused that made sure by their arguments that the jehovah witness religion should not be excluded from this royal commission as they wern`t initially included in this enquiry.. the full/final report of this arc is to be handed down later this week..

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  Thanks for sharing. I look forward to watching it.
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  Whole families leaving the Org has increased

  by pomo6780 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have noticed in the uk a few families i used to know while in the borg have exited together.

  some include former elders and ministerial servants.

  i observed on social media pages that the kids have 'worldly' boyfriends and girlfriends and they look so much happier than they did in the org.

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  I know of 4 families including mine.
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  Creeeeepy Sanderson

  by oppostate in

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  2. entertainment

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  creepy sanderson.

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  Actually I also do not find it creepy. I find it lovely that a man of "his standing" is actually giving the little boy the time of day.

  Growing up we had all the COs/DOs and their wives come for free services from my mother in our home and yet if I said hi to them at the assemblies and conventions they would ignore me and walk away. Too important to waste time on children.
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  WT property confiscated in Russia...

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  russian court seizes $15mn worth of assets from banned jehovah’s witnesses ‘extremists’.

  published time: 9 dec, 2017 02:44.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  Good thing they are not singling out the JWs so they can't say it's persecution as predicted.
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  What's destroying Watchtower!

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's the extreme shunning policy.. at a recent sunday meeting, i listened to a complete brainwashed sister saying how important it was that we stick to the shunning policy even if it is a close relative.. i just thought.

  wtf.

  there is a big difference between the brainwashed and the awoken class!.

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  It is easy to make comments like that sister until she finds herself at the shunned end of the situation. They think you need to be evil to get disfellowshiped when in reality you can get disfellowshiped quite easily for nothing serious at all.
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  "Worldly" boyfriend has never met my JW family, and might never will.

  by BL_Poet in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  public service announcement: i am not going to write a whole backstory on myself, i just simply want to get to the point.. i have been disfellowshipped now for almost 3 years, for i had a baby out of wedlock, not by my current boyfriend, but by a guy i was dating at the time- don't judge me ;) lol- my current boyfriend and i have been dating for a year now.

  i've met his family-only his parents, and his cousins family, of whom i knew before i met him, thus how i met him through a bbq- at the time, he knew i was a single mom, and didn't know too much of my backstory.

  as you can imagine, i had to tell him about how my babies father and i didn't work out, due to his wandering eye, and how i had little to no support due to being disfellowshipped, or as the "world" knows it by- disassociated- from my religion.

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  Not an easy situation. Part of me would be telling me to take my boyfriend to my parents house and knock on the door. Let your partner see first hand what would happen.

  I would most certainly be upfront and open with his family about your upbringing and show them from the watchtower articles why and how you find yourself in this situation.

  The internet is a wonderful source of information and there are plenty of stories matching yours that they could see for themselves that you are a victim.

  Good luck.
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  Attendents sit at the best seats

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well it's been awhile since i got angry and wanted to post on here again.

  last week's watchtower about the subject of love had something to say about the hard working attendants.

  it seems that they are choosing to sit in the best seats at the convention.

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  Wow! The level of control is crazy.

  In our congregation we have a family with a son in a wheelchair. Only one of his family members were allowed to sit in the infirm area with him. So mum sat with him and his dad sat with the rest of the family elsewhere.

  A friend of mine was constantly asked to move because she didn't look infirm so she took to walking around with a walking stick. She has a government issued disabled parking pass but was not allowed to park in the disabled parks without a Watchtower issued pass.

  Just the entire process of attending convention creates such anxiety it's just not worth the effort.

  They don't tell everyone you can stay home in your armchair and watch the entire thing on you tube.
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  Counting time calling on inactive ones?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  had a couple of witnesses stop by yesterday to say the usual "we miss you, missed you at the meeting, just checking in on you, etc.

  " i've always liked this guy so we spoke for a few minutes.

  my wife said that they could count their time since i am inactive.

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  Pioneers are allowed to count time visiting the inactive. In the 80s they could do so only if they got permission from the elders.

  I got a visit from two sisters in our congregation. First​ time they had ever been at my house and we have been in the same house 18 years. They didn't stay long. I think they just needed the extra half hour for their time sheet.
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  Chapter 49 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

  by new boy in

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  2. friends

  chapter 49. cool aid anyone?.

  this was of course great news for my wife.

  all the talk in the congregation about who had caused our spit up was now over.

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  They never admit openly that you can be disfellowshiped just for no longer believing everything. My own mother believes 100% that if you get disfellowshiped, you must have done something really bad. Yet the ARC and other Royal Commissions the world over have proved that child abuse is apparently not a sin deserving of disfellowshiping.

  Why would Jehovah, if he in fact exists, have chosen this lot to be his people? The mind boggles.
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  Congregation picnic time

  by Jayk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've never been completely shunned because i've never been baptized.

  my father side has always talked to me and included me in family events.

  but my mom's side is in denial of shunning me.

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  moreconfusedthanever

  I can't think of any good reason to go to a congregation get together where everyone is being fake and judgemental.